Have you ever wondered what happens to your recyclables once they’re hauled away from the curb? Plastic, metal, paper and glass must be sorted and subsorted.
Many recyclable materials can never be remade into whatever they were before. They must be put to some other, and likely lower use. Many but not all. Once glass bottles have been separated from other materials, they become raw material for making new glass bottles.
The following infographic illustrates the process.
Provided by Advanced Technical Concepts
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